Black History

Ooh ooh oohI know, I knowOoh oohMy heart is filled with grief when I rememberHow they've taken our foreparents from their homelandShipped to every corner of this earthBound in shackles and chain like their beastThey would be spanked with many strikes by the masterIf they should ever not do just what they're toldIt really grieves my heart to seeIt's pure brutalityWhenever I recall my historyIt grieves my heart, you seeHow they've treated our foreparentsIn the days of slaverySlavery and brutalityThat's all they give meThat's all they give meMy heart is filled with grief when I rememberHow they've taken our foreparents from their homelandShipped to every corner of this earthBound in shackles and chain like their beastThey would be spanked with many strikes by the masterIf they should ever not do just what they're toldIt really grieves my heart to seeIt's pure brutalityMy heart is filled with grief when I rememberHow they've taken our foreparents from their homelandShipped to every corner of this earthBound in shackles and chain like their beastI know, I know, I knowI know, I know, I knowOoh ooh

Black history

Black history refers to the history of black people in any of several regions:

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Earlier this month, the Lifetime network aired SurvivingR. Kelly, a 6-part docuseries produced by dream hampton. The series chronicles the harrowing experiences of more than a dozen women who allege that best-selling music artist Robert Kelly (better known as R ... The post R. Kelly and the silencing of blackwomen in history appeared first on Raw Story....

They scrabbled for money from every single local pot they could find, says June Freeman, a trustee of the Colchester and Tendringwomen’s refuge for 40 years, who with BaljitBanga, director of the LondonBlackWomen’s Project, has organised an exhibition and archive to preserve vital knowledge about the history of refuges in the UK....

Journalist Jill Filipovic argued on Twitter recently that she judges Harris’s history less harshly because blackwomen “shoulder additional burdens” compared to white men, and because women have to prove that they are “tough.” Filipovic acknowledges that ......

according to The Sentencing Project, the rate of incarceration for Blackwomen rose 700% between 1980 and 2014 ...Hill offers too-short introductions to various Blackwomen throughout history before presenting poems she wrote, based on each individual woman’s situation....

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If Beale Street Could Talk intercuts Fonny’s prison scenes with a montage of black-and-white photos, of jailed Black men and women from across the century. It is a stark jump to history that briefly makes the film into a window, where one can see beyond Fonny and Tish to the millions of Black families visiting loved ones in jail....

Buck wrote in 2000 that more women political prisoners will emerge, and with CodePink rabble-rousers, the Native American water protectors around facing federal charges and decades of incarceration, and the many women who have drawn and quartered the racist and misogynistic history of modern America in the Black Lives Movement, she was right....

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